PGA WEST Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course

While frost delays aren't common in the desert, they can occur this time of year. This was the case for our twosome. We flew in from Oregon the morning of the tenth and made our way out to PGA West. They I formed us that they were running about an hour behind. We grabbed a bite on the patio and made our way over to the starter about 11:45. About an hour before our scheduled tee time. I let the starter know that we were here early and if there was any chance getting off early we would be willing to do so. His reply was not in his words but how he said it. "Yea, that's not going to happen". I told him that we would be on the range and gave him our cart number and name. After hitting some balls, my friend and I made our way over to the putting green. This gives a good view of the #1 tee fir Nicklaus Tournament. I witnessed a twosome teeing off. Thinking that they were catching up or maybe someone was running late. After a few minutes I made my way over to the starter and asked him "Did you just send a twosome off"?. He kind of paused and said "excuse me"?.I repeated myself and he told me they were part of a six some and wanted to play by themselves. My reply was "You got to be kidding, you're running 45 minutes behind and you are sending off twosomes". There are many golf Courses to play in the Coachella Valley. Two of which we played the following day were Rams Hill and Shadow Ridge. Two courses I would return to and highly recommended over PGA West. Both the condition and service were far and above what we found at PGA West. I certainly hope the powers that be use this experience to implement a program on customer service as there is quite a bit of room for improvement. On a positive note, our breakfast was wonderful and the restaurant staff was fantastic. ...

Trying to rate it against so many great resort courses in the in the Palm Desert area is difficult Truly a great golf course with all of Jack’s touches. Plenty of sand and water to challenge players of all levels.
Missing is the flowers and water falls of some of resort courses to make it pretty, but making up for it in a great well designed layout. Condition were great as they prepare for the PGA in January. Staff was excellent.

Great condition very nice course preferred by some locals over their private course.

Many of the bunkers had no sand on top of hard pan making normal bunker shots impossible.

For the amount charged for green fees, this should be 5 star across the board. Breakfast was average and I am being kind. The signage for hole to hole play was bad particularly on 10 and 12. We inadvertently started playing 2 again after 9 and had a hard time finding 12 tee.

We will choose other options next time we are here.

2nd time playing this course. Very expensive for conditions. Over seeding. Cart path only. Golf now should inform you prior to booking. I would have paid half the price somewhere else with much better conditions

The starter was amazing. Staff was over top friendly. Course was fun. Marshall needed to go around and speed up for some foursome that had never played before. They were holding up five or six groups.

Greens were slow on our day. 8.5. Great track. Most greens are elevated with bunkers and swails protecting. Pace of play of group ahead contributed to 5 hr round. Marshall sped them up on back 9. Thank you.

We had two golf carts die on us
Chris caballero the director of golf gave us a free golf game, so I was happy with the staffing.
The course was only golf cart so it made it slower

This is a beautiful and very challenging course
Greens were way too slow for a course of this quality
Was cartpath only which definitely hurt our experience

Very nice course amd we played on a Golfnow hot deal. Was very nice and at least you know when you go there that it will be. Worth the full price, I think not. Not even sure it’s worth the Hot deal price.
Course was in good condition but the fairways were shaggy. Zero roll so play one set of tees up from where you normally do.

Always a pleasure to play the courses at PGA West. NTC is in great shape. Wish the course would let you know when they are not allowing carts on the course. Course is in much better shape than last year at the same time. Fairways are in great shape and could easily support cart traffic. Greens were very shaggy. I realize that the courses are coming out of overseeding and the entire complex is getting ready for the American Express. I'm coming back on December 10th, and I'm hoping everything is ready to go.